I sent a Picture of Rich's Hot Rod to Mayf yesterday for inclusion on the
web site.... real neat little piece... and it does look like a Bonneville
hot Rod... if I ever saw one.. neat car...
Keith
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> From: V4GR@aol.com
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Vintage 4
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:48 PM
>
> I like the vintage 4 class because its not "I can buy better parts
> than you" but "I can make better parts than I did last time." We don't go
> very fast (except for Roy Creel) but we have as much fun as anybody. In
63 or
> 64 I met Dave Dozier at the drags and he was telling me about the 32
Plymouth
> drag motor he used to have. He mentioned a Y block Ford head was a near
bolt
> on. I thought about that for years and in 94 I found a 31 Ply engine, and
> away we went.
> Harold Johanson holds the record in V4GR at 144 at salt 147 at the dirt.
I
> thought the Ply might do it at the salt, 147 at El Mirage looked tough.
As it
> happened the fastest it has ever gone is 135 MPH at Bonneville and at El
> Mirage. Still whenever it ran I was amazed that mismatched pile of parts
> would run at all. My roadster is the old San Francisco Ramblers
> club roadster that ran at B'ville in 55 with a 260 Dodge hemi. Than it
was Al
> Haloway's E/BFR and than I ran it as a G/GR until I put in the Ply. Its
has
> Morris torsion bars all round and a swing axle V8 quickchange rearend. It
> went 142 one way with the 2 liter Lotus motor, went 219 for Al with 258
Blown
> sbc.
> I'm building a Blown flathead 32 Plymouth for it now,
> hope springs eternal. Rich Fox
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